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Nancy Randolph Pearcey is the Francis A Schaeffer scholar at the World Journalism Institute, where Total Truth serves as the basis for a worldview curriculum. She has her M. A. from Covenant Theological Seminary (PCA). She has authored or contributed to several works, including the ECPA Gold Medallion winner How Now Shall We Live? and Crossway’s The Soul of Science.
Total Truth; Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey, Crossway, 2004.
From
the introduction:
This book … will help you identify the secular/sacred divide that keeps your faith locked into the private sphere of “religious truth.” It will walk you through practical, workable steps for crafting a Christian worldview in your own life and work. And it will teach you how to apply a worldview grid to cut through the bewildering maze of ideas and ideologies we encounter in a postmodern world. The purpose of worldview studies is nothing less than to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity, unleashing its power to transform the world.
Comments about the book:
As a Biology major in college and later as a Recreational therapist, I always found conversations about how to integrate one’s faith and vocation of utmost interest. One of the reasons I cherish my Reformed Faith is that it offers the best answers and the best inspiration for the Christian trying to be a “light” in every area of his/her life. Nancy Pearcey’s book Total Truth is the quintessential book on that topic. She easily and carefully shows how, through history, both the Church’s theology and Western Culture’s ideology created a separation of “values” and “facts”. This value/fact split or faith/science split has been the major reason Christians fail to see their vocations as their ministries. If mankind’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, then Pearcey gives us a road map of what that can look like in every area of our lives. Being a “holistic” Christian is what Luther and Calvin were after, so Pearcey builds on them and the landmark work of Francis Schaeffer calling Christians to engage their world with Total Truth. This is an encouraging book for believers who want to take their life and calling seriously.
— Dave Foster, Pastor, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church
Nancy Pearcey has written a book that spans intersections of secular thought and Christian orientation over a wide cultural horizon. While Francis Schaeffer gave a whole generation a credible framework in Christianity for the flow of ideas and their consequences, Pearcey goes more into the text and demonstrates how correct Schaeffer was in his analysis.
— Udo Middelmann, Director, Francis A Schaeffer Foundation.
Pearcey takes us into truer and worthier witness in our increasingly secularized world. All will profit mightily from what is written here..
— J. I. Packer, Regent College
Pearcey is firing on all pistons. I love her stubborn and intelligent insistence on the gospel’s truth and relevance to all of life..
— Kelly Monroe Kullberg, coauthor and editor, Finding God at Harvard.
November 2006
Total Truth is amazing, both in the depth of its worldview analysis and in its superbly crafted writing style. The best work of cultural analysis from a Christian standpoint available today.
-- James Sire, author, The Universe Next Door.
A unique combination of apologetics, worldview analysis, social commentary, and instruction manual. Pearcey’s knowledge, insight, and faith place her among the top handful of relevant Christian thinkers of our time.
-- David Limbaugh, author, Persecution.
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